I pagamenti senza contatto sull’autobus di Dublino potrebbero non essere disponibili fino al 2028
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/contactless-payments-on-dublin-bus-may-not-be-available-until-2028/a478823628.html
di stellonbosh
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Forgot my Leap card today so did my annual Google search of how far away this “next generation” technology is from hitting our streets and saw this article from yesterday.
Sure it’s been in London for over 10 years but it will be around any decade for us now.
Good oul backwards Ireland! 🤦♂️
Was in London a few weeks ago, staying outside the city. Able to tap on at the train station, get the train in, cross onto the tube, tapping in and out at every station we got on/off at. Tapping creates a virtual wallet with the card your using and money taken out at the end of the day.
Meanwhile in work I’ve to explain, that in 2025, our ticket machines in stations can’t take anything over a €20 note of paying with cash…..
Edit: and the machines can only give change in coin. Great if you put in 2 x €20 notes for ticket that costs €21 or €22
London has oysters since 2003.
a vastly more complicated network.
More abject failure from Ireland…
No accountability from the public service (again), who’s responsible for this delay?
Ireland lagging behind on infrastructure projects?
You know, for a supposedly rich country, we don’t feel like it…
People complain about infrastructure like the children’s hospital or the lack of rail line to the airport, all of which has its problems but at least those are very complex multifaceted challenges. I honestly cannot understand how the bus network couldn’t be updated to use debit cards within the space of a month and that is a generous timeline
Absolutely comical.
Surely they can just do both , I know wild idea ….
Jesus Christ, if they can retrofit the vending machines to take cards why not the buses?
Yeah, forgot my wallet going to Dublin a few weeks back and ran into the same issue of not being able to take the bus at all. Like how tf does that make sense in 2025
They have this in Spain and Italy lol. I just returned from abroad after six years and I’m pregnant so decided to not take the bus from Limerick to Dublin and instead take the train. I always loved Irish rail and LOVE the train experience. Anyway we were a bit late due to early morning traffic, we didn’t have time to grab a snack at the shop but I was like oh there will be a shop on board. LOL! Turns out since COVID they are yet to figure out a supplier for the shop. This is so insane to me because what do you mean? It’s been 3 years since restrictions were fully lifted & having even just a vending machine on long train rides hasn’t been possible. When I looked up the whole thing on their website they still have no clue when onboard catering will be available again 🫠 Anyway I had a horrible 2:30 hours on that train ride with my blood sugar dropping . Reminded me to never rely on systems in our lovely country.
Fire the leadership of Dublin bus, they’re dinosaurs.
The lady that was questioned in from the PAC committee last year was absolutely clueless about technology of any sort, but here she is leading millions and millions of euros of critical infrastructure that requires some sort of IT knowledge. She didn’t seem to be the sharpest tool in the box either.
May aswell go back to horses and donkeys with the way this country is operated
That’s actually crazy. Can’t imagine how much money they’re making through the remains on leap card and all the coins they’re keeping
Why can’t they just get the same people that did London. Leap card is shittest product i use
Why can’t they just put sumup machines above the coin slot. Not ideal obviously but it would cost fuck all.
I really don’t understand why they’re reinventing the wheel with this. It’s a card payment system, they’re in use all over the world?? Pick one of the countless options already in use somewhere and take a month to swap out the terminals here!
They have contactless on the buses in Malta – I really cannot understand why its so difficult here to implement it
Tied to the Children’s Hospital
Tap to pay is the Irish version of Fusion power, always 20 years away.
That’s pathetic.
Id love for someone to explain how this can take 3 years .
FFS 🤦♂️.
“the new-generation ticketing system is still at the analysis and design stage”
This might be a little left field, but what about getting a company that already has a ticket system up and running?
Most places I visit have this tech sorted. Ireland has so much money compared to some other countries but can’t event improve basic thing like this. We are going to be in so much trouble when all tax money is gone. We can’t expect same amount of money will be flowing in the future if we don’t improve infrastructure.
But I love telling tourists that ‘no you cant pay by card but if you go over to that random Centra over there and buy a whole new card, top it up, then you can pay with that card’
I can just imagine the discussion and big unwieldy old tech that they’re using and probably some consultants coming in to advise on this.
Couldnt they trial something on a single bus route like using a payment system on a mid level phone. And then just phase out the cards and make bake cards the default.
Couldn’t believe moving home , getting on a Bus Eireanm bus and being told cash or leap card, no back card. Backward
My parish GAA team can take contact less payment for the local LOTTO for several years, how hard can it fvckin be?